If you love loud, then the boys of Sentries just might be your dudes. The Bay area “grunge-gaze” band opened for Underoath at the post-hardcore band’s outrageous secret show at Crowbar (Sentries’ second show ever), and now the trio made up of frontman David Teten, bassist Nate Murray and Daniel Williams on drums returns to Ybor City with a new song — “Graticule,” its first bit of recorded music ever.
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“We played one show several years back at NWB with Light Yourself on Fire and then didn’t play again for some time,” bassist Nate Murray told CL, adding that the band was finally able to corral the focus it achieves when a show comes up and turn it into something recorded.
“We put ourselves under the gun time-wise with prepping to play a show with last year with Underoath, and the nervous energy around that was fun. Kinda doing the same with these two shows come up too. Time to turn up and bang as many correct chords as we can.”
But will this spurt give us even more new music?
“We have a few tracks recorded and in the bag. We’re stoked to let these live and breathe,” Murrayadded. “We also have another EP’s worth of songs finished. Once our work obligations and vacation times all align we’ll get those bad boys recorded too. 2020 has a nice ring to it, yeah?”
Sentires has a show alongside Portland, Oregon longhaired rock-and-roll flower children Black Pussy tonight in Ybor and on Saturday it’ll join St. Pete’s Horsewhip (a band featuring former members of Reversal of Man, combatwoundedveteran, Early Grace, Order of Importance and Sutek Conspiracy) for a hotly anticipated free show at The Bends.
More information on the shows is available via cltampa.com/musicweek. Listen to “Graticule” below.
This article appears in Sep 14-21, 2017.
